My school has done a complete 180 over the last few years from having iPads for each student and tech heavy lesson plans to pen and paper, cursive, and physical math manipulatives.

The Boys already did this gag a week ago. Get new material Danielle.

Not all statements by the pope are regarded as infallible by Catholics. In fact, invoking infallibility is very rare. However Leo's statements on the Iran War are very clearly in line with Catholic doctrine.

I was wondering why there was parking on mars.

I agree.

Another way that I like to describe this is that almost nothing could make the earth less hospitable than the moon or mars already are. Asteroid strike? Mars' thin atmosphere is even more vulnerable. Climate change? The moon swings between -170C and 119 C each month. Nuclear war? Try living under constant cosmic radiation in a pressurized habitat that could be completely destroyed by a few small conventional explosives instead of a nuclear bomb.

If we had the ability to make a self sustaining colony on mars we'd be able to restore earth's biosphere or make self sustaining arcologies or bunkers.

The Artemis 2 flyby of the moon was really cool. But the photos of the moon really reminded me how absurd it is that a dozen obscenely wealthy bastards are pushing us to live and work in a deadly airless ugly desert instead of preserving the miraculous little oasis in space that we already have.

First there's capex, then there's the ongoing cost of fuel, then there's the ongoing cost of lobbying to get politicians to waste lives and money on oil wars.

There were people in my city promoting a May 1st General Strike.

In blue cities, it is a networking event. There were booths for all sorts of organizations to get people more involved in activism. I was there with Food Not Bombs but there was like 30 booths for Not In Our Name, Veterans for Peace, AIRR, Peaceworks, PSL (Yuck), Labor Unions, and many more.